Royalty Report: Telecommunications Svcs & Equip, Telecommunications Equip, Internet – Collection: 27727

License Grant

Under this agreement the Company will acquire an exclusive license under the licensor's patent rights for U.S. patent number 4,803,719, pertaining to telephone line powered applications, for the primary purpose of utilizing the licensor's invention through sales of products and services.

License Property

U.S. patent number 4,803,719 – Method for powering telephone apparatus and telephone apparatus powered directly from the telephone line without external power

Field of Use

This agreement pertains to the communication industry.

License Grant

In 2003 we acquired a patent for VoIP communication from the undisclosed inventor.  Patent licensing revenue is derived from licensing our intellectual property.

License Property

Our VoIP Patent Portfolio is an international patent portfolio covering the basic process and technology that enables VoIP communications.  Our patented technology enables telecommunications customers to originate a phone call on a traditional handset, transmit any part of that call via the Internet, and then terminate the call over the traditional telephone network.

In connection with the acquisition of U.S. Patent No. 6,243,373, the Company agreed to remit, to the former owner of the patent, proceeds from future revenue derived from the licensing of the VoIP Patent Portfolio, composed of U.S. Patent No's. 6,243,373 and 6,438,124.

Field of Use

The rights granted apply to the telecommunication field.

License Grant

Licensor covenants and agrees to grant to the Company the right to license, at the Companys option, on an exclusive basis for specific geographic areas of the states of California and Nevada (collectively, the Territory), to use 800 area code and 900 area code telephone numbers in which the Licensor has acquired right, title and interest from telephone companies (the Licensed Rights).

License Property

The telephone numbers included in such Licensed Rights include, without limitation, the following
800-933-6775  (800-WE-DO-PRK)
800-566-9775  (800-KNOW-PRK)
900-933-6775  (900-WE-DO-PRK)
900-933-6393  (900-WE-DO-EYE).

Field of Use

This agreement pertains to the telecommunication industry.

License Grant

The Company entered into an agreement for the licensing rights for the patent and trademark rights associated with the Company’s Softalk product line; consumer product – telephone shoulder rest products.

License Grant

We licensed certain ADSL technology from an unrelated third party, to develop, manufacture and distribute products.

License Property

Our Apollo and SAM families of products incorporate this technology.  Our products are designed to enhance the performance of asymmetric digital subscriber line equipment; integrated circuit and software products that are incorporated into asymmetric digital subscriber line broadband access communications equipment.

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), a modem technology, converts existing twisted-pair telephone lines into access paths for multimedia and high-speed data communications.

License Grant

Licensor grants a worldwide, perpetual, nontransferable license under the PowerStream IP
– to make, use, create, develop, sell, offer to sell, rent, lease, distribute, market, commercialize, export and/or import Products anywhere in or throughout the world;
– to have Products made, used, created, developed, sold, offered for sale, rented, leased, distributed, marketed, commercialized, exported and/or imported anywhere in or throughout the world, provided that Licensee may not have Products made, created or developed by a Competitor of Licensor without Licensors prior written consent; and
– to grant sublicenses, which may authorize further sublicensing through one or more layers of sublicensees, to third parties, provided that Licensee may not grant such sublicenses to a Competitor of Licensor without Licensors prior written consent.

License Property

Licensor is the owner of and is developing certain technologies for communications over various media, including powerlines and copper telephone wire, that are degraded by noise, signal attenuation and/or signal distortion

Powerstream Technology means Licensors high speed powerline technology, which includes a synchronizer, a digital equalizer, a modulator/demodulator, a forward error correction encoder/decoder, an error detection encoder/decoder, physical layer management, segmentation and reassembly, link protocol, quality of service, and applicable interfaces.

MWB Technology means that multiple wideband, high speed communications technology being jointly developed by Licensor and Licensee, a High-Data-Rate Long Distance Communications for Noisy and Attenuated Media such as VDSL, rev. 1.00, and which will be further developed jointly by Licensor and Licensee pursuant to this Agreement.

Products means products that are designed for use only in the Field implementing the PowerStream Technology and/or MWB Technology and that, but for the provisions of this Agreement, would infringe the PowerStream IP and/or MWB IP.

The patents are for Power Line Communication System, Method and Apparatus for Data Encoding and Communication Over Noisy Media, Reconfigurable On-Demand Telephone and Data Line System, Wideband Communication System Using Delay Line Clock Multiplier, Token Passing Arrangement For Power Line Communication System, Digital Equalization Process and Mechanism, and, Error Correction Process and Mechanism.

Field of Use

The Field means transmission products for any portion of the telecommunications network comprised of copper telephone wire between and including the carriers facility and the termination of that wire at the access point at the user premises, including in-building copper telephone wire cable riser applications in multi-tenant units (MTUs) and multi-dwelling buildings (MDUs). Other in-building applications are not included in the Field.

License Grant

Licensor hereby grants a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty bearing license under the '930 Patent (i) to make, use, lease, sell, offer for sale, import design, Have Made and otherwise transfer Licensed Products, including the right to procure or produce components therefore, (ii) to practice a method or process involved in the manufacture thereof, and (iii) practice any method or process involved in the use thereof.

Licensor agreed to a settlement of its patent infringement litigation against Licensee  and Licensee Systems, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, for infringement of Network-1's Remote Power Patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,218,930).

Field of Use

The Remote Power Patent relates to, among other things, the delivery of power over Ethernet cables in order to remotely power network connected devices including, among others, wireless switches, wireless access points, RFID card readers, VoIP telephones and network cameras.